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Browser configuration schema reference

10/26/2015

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Browser configuration files (also known as browserconfig) can be used to define pinned site customizations, such as tile backgrounds, badge updates, and tile notifications. Browser configuration files let you set these customizations using external XML files rather than metadata within the HTML markup of a webpage.

Defining notifications with browser configuration schema

Browser configuration files are XML files that define customizations for pinned sites and Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) to be polled for notification updates. (You can also use HTML or JavaScript to define notifications.)

This example defines tile backgrounds for four tile sizes, specifies a badge update for every thirty (30) minutes, and defines five notification URIs to be polled every half hour. Because this example contains relative references, the files for the images and the notification polls are presumed to be located in the same directory as the configuration file itself. (For best results, use absolute (fully-qualified) paths.)

To use the configuration file, use HTML:

<meta name="msapplication-config" content="IEconfig.xml" />

To stop using the configuration file, set the content attribute to "none":

<meta name="msapplication-config" content="none"/>

Note: If a webpage does not specify a browser configuration file, IE11 automatically looks for "browserconfig.xml" in the root directory of the server. To prevent this, use an "msapplication-config" header with the content attribute to "none" (shown earlier).